Iraqi city of Kirkuk hit by deadly bombings

At least 17 people have been killed and many more wounded in a series of bombing that appear to have targeted police in the northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk. The three blasts are reported to have gone off within an hour of each other. Security officials said the first explosion...

DoD Operation Enduring Freedom Casualty Update as of 10am 1 Oct

Nine more soldiers pay the ultimate price in Afghanistan, bringing the total to 1299.   Six soldiers died during the first month of Iraqi Dawn raising the total to 4427. The United States is one month...

DoD Operation Enduring Freedom Casualty Update as of 10am 24 Sept

Casualties during Operation Enduring Freedom have increased by 22 this week. Another week has passed and while politics is the order of the day with the election campaign for the primaries and midterm elections...

DoD Op Enduring Freedom Casualty update as of 10am 5th Feb 2010

There have been a number of casualties again this week in Afghanistan.  A total of 6 U.S. soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice this past week.  Four were killed in action while two other died of other...

Cold wave claims more than 195 lives across north India

New Delhi: Cold wave claimed 195 lives across north India even as its intensity slightly abated on Tuesday after the Sun came out lifting the fog and raising temperature in parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and...

Afghanistan - First Miltary Casualties in 2010

2009 was one of the bloodiest years for NATO troops in Afghanistan.  The US total casualty rate for Operation Enduring Freedom was 861.  Canada, yesterday, repatriated 4 soldiers and one civilian...

Repatriation Ceremony and Highway of Heroes Live 2pm ET

Last Wednesday, December 30th, marked the bloodiest day for Canadian Forces in Afghanistan in two and a half years. A convoy, part of the Provincial Reconstruction Team, was on a routine patrol in Kandahar City...

Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan-Lt Andrew Richard Nuttall

Lieutenant Andrew Richard Nutttall, a member of the 1st Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, stationed in Edmonton, Alberta was killed by and improvised explosive device Wednesday in Afghanistan....

DoD Op Enduring Freedom Casualty update as of 10am 18th Dec 2009

This weeks update on the DoD site has one less dead in Afghanistan then last week.  As a result of this, I am not publishing those new figures.  It is obvious that someone made a mistake when...

Second Blast at Russia Arms Depot

Eight military personnel were killed during a cleanup operation at Russian arms depot in Ulyanovsk.  Ulyanovsk is located east of Moscow and the arms depot was the scene of a large fire earlier this...

DoD Op Enduring Freedom Casualty update as of 10am 13th Nov 2009

Here is this weeks update on Casualties in Afghanistan.  Another 8 soldiers lost their lives this week.  This is amidst the reported rejections of options presented to President Obama and the...

DoD Op Enduring Freedom Casualty update as of 10am 6th Nov 2009

Here is this weeks update on Casualties in Afghanistan.  Casualties of American troops this week than in recent preceding weeks.  This only makes it that more tragic that 9 were killed in Fort Hood,...

DoD Op Enduring Freedom Casualty update as of 10am 30th Oct 2009

Yesterday President Obama met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan.  Presumably the meeting discussed troop strength and the approach regarding General McChrystals...

105 Killed In Bomb Blast In Peshawar

Sadly, I have been changing the numbers in this story's headline: The death toll in the deadly Peshawar blast has now risen to 105. Over 200 people are said to be wounded. There will perhaps be more casualties as...

DoD Op Enduring Freedom Casualty update as of 10am 23 Oct 2009

Yesterday, NATO Defence Ministers and the NATO Secretary General have voiced their support for General McChrystal;s recommendations for Afghanistan.  There is also broadbased support by the UN.Apparently...

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